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{"id":1826979283005,"title":"Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra: Complete Recordings (1925-1929)","handle":"1140","description":"An article in the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Herald on 4 December 1926 sums up the excitement surrounding an appearance by Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere will be plenty of travel over all roads leading into Portsmouth Monday evening as the last dance of the season by the McEnelly orchestra is scheduled at that time in Freeman's hall and a record crowd is assured. The balcony patrons are advised to come early and hear the entire concert and stay long enough to hear some of McEnelly's latest dance compositions.\u003cbr\u003eNOTE:--Leave request at box office for orchestra to play your favorite musical number.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eOnce touted as the \"Toast of New England,\" violinist Edwin J. McEnelly led a popular dance orchestra for forty years. He hired top musicians from the ranks of such notable bands as the California Ramblers and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and he quickly earned a reputation for his band's creative and distinctive arrangements. From his base at the Butterfly Ballroom in Springfield, Massachusetts, McEnelly and his band toured the Eastern Seaboard in the 1920s playing dances and competing in \"battles of the bands\" (famously beating the Jean Goldkette band on one occasion). The band achieved national recognition through its regular radio broadcasts on station WBZ and a handful of records made between 1925 and 1929.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis revised and expanded 2020 edition\u003c\/strong\u003e of McEnelly's complete recordings features brand new audio restorations from original sources, remastered with sparkling clarity. The accompanying full color 32-page booklet by Bryan S. 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McEnelly's Orchestra:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere will be plenty of travel over all roads leading into Portsmouth Monday evening as the last dance of the season by the McEnelly orchestra is scheduled at that time in Freeman's hall and a record crowd is assured. The balcony patrons are advised to come early and hear the entire concert and stay long enough to hear some of McEnelly's latest dance compositions.\u003cbr\u003eNOTE:--Leave request at box office for orchestra to play your favorite musical number.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eOnce touted as the \"Toast of New England,\" violinist Edwin J. McEnelly led a popular dance orchestra for forty years. He hired top musicians from the ranks of such notable bands as the California Ramblers and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and he quickly earned a reputation for his band's creative and distinctive arrangements. From his base at the Butterfly Ballroom in Springfield, Massachusetts, McEnelly and his band toured the Eastern Seaboard in the 1920s playing dances and competing in \"battles of the bands\" (famously beating the Jean Goldkette band on one occasion). The band achieved national recognition through its regular radio broadcasts on station WBZ and a handful of records made between 1925 and 1929.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis revised and expanded 2020 edition\u003c\/strong\u003e of McEnelly's complete recordings features brand new audio restorations from original sources, remastered with sparkling clarity. The accompanying full color 32-page booklet by Bryan S. Wright features a substantial essay containing a detailed history of the band with commentary and full discographical information for each of the recordings. Many rare photographs, historic advertisements, and sheet music covers are also included. 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Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra

Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra: Complete Recordings (1925-1929)

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An article in the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Herald on 4 December 1926 sums up the excitement surrounding an appearance by Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra:


There will be plenty of travel over all roads leading into Portsmouth Monday evening as the last dance of the season by the McEnelly orchestra is scheduled at that time in Freeman's hall and a record crowd is assured. The balcony patrons are advised to come early and hear the entire concert and stay long enough to hear some of McEnelly's latest dance compositions.
NOTE:--Leave request at box office for orchestra to play your favorite musical number.

Once touted as the "Toast of New England," violinist Edwin J. McEnelly led a popular dance orchestra for forty years. He hired top musicians from the ranks of such notable bands as the California Ramblers and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and he quickly earned a reputation for his band's creative and distinctive arrangements. From his base at the Butterfly Ballroom in Springfield, Massachusetts, McEnelly and his band toured the Eastern Seaboard in the 1920s playing dances and competing in "battles of the bands" (famously beating the Jean Goldkette band on one occasion). The band achieved national recognition through its regular radio broadcasts on station WBZ and a handful of records made between 1925 and 1929.

This revised and expanded 2020 edition of McEnelly's complete recordings features brand new audio restorations from original sources, remastered with sparkling clarity. The accompanying full color 32-page booklet by Bryan S. Wright features a substantial essay containing a detailed history of the band with commentary and full discographical information for each of the recordings. Many rare photographs, historic advertisements, and sheet music covers are also included. Features pianist Frankie Carle. 67 minutes.

Rivermont catalogue number: BSW-1140


Formats available:

  • Audio CD
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If you are purchasing a digital download and you do not know whether your playback device is compatible with Apple Lossless, we recommend the universally-compatible MP3 format. All digital downloads include a PDF digital booklet containing all of the text and images found in the physical CD booklet. If you select Apple Lossless or MP3, you will receive a download link by e-mail upon completion of checkout; no physical product will be mailed to you.


Track list:

1.
Desert Isle
2.
I Like Pie - I Like Cake - But I Like You Best of All
3.
Spanish Shawl
4.
Normandy
5.
What a Blue Eyed Baby You Are
6.
Moonlight in Mandalay
7.
In the Middle of the Night
8.
That Night in Araby
9.
Blame It on the Waltz
10.
Tuck in Kentucky and Smile
11.
Just Cross the River From Queens
12.
My Sunday Girl
13.
I'll Take Care of Your Cares
14.
A Siren Dream
15.
What Are We Waiting For?
16.
Sleep, Baby, Sleep
17.
Jo-Anne
18.
All of the Time
19.
Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me Today)
20.
Raquel
21.
Dear, When I Met You

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Matthew de Lacey Davidson
An essential item, expertly curated with astonishing sound renovation

Multi-talented producer Bryan Wright has written eloquent and beautifully written liner notes to accompany this sprightly collection featuring this multi-purpose orchestra originating out of New England (primarily Springfield, Massachusetts). According to the liner notes, this group also played classical music at its venues, as well as dance music when they played in public.

An example of how this affected their dance music is the first track, “Desert Isle.” After hearing the strings playing pizzicato and accompanied by notes in the high range of the piano, then the cowbells, then unusual mutes for the trumpets, the listener is provided long quotes from the “New World Symphony.” Knowing about the versatility of this band helps in understanding the arrangements, all of which are punctuated by very tight ensemble work.

Another favourite of mine from this album, “Spanish Shawl” makes great use of “Spanish rhythms.” Then the saxophones play a chorus, followed by good use of mutes by a solo trumpet, with an effective use of the brass bass at the end. For a while, I thought that this was based on an arrangement from elsewhere. However, I wound up remembering that I had initially heard this recording before from a Smithsonian Records LP re-release, “The Dancing Twenties.” However, in this collection the record has been remastered with far greater clarity. The passage of time and better software, not to mention a more sympathetic ear for the recording, results in a much better transcription herein.

“Moonlight in Mandalay” is one of any number of songs about so-called “exotic” far-away places written and arranged in the 1920s. In it, we hear a short oboe solo. This is the sort of thing one hears in high class bands like Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra recordings – a band also comprised of A++ musicians.

“My Sunday Girl” clearly uses the same stock arrangement as the one used by Harry Reser’s Clicquot Club Eskimos, with the vocalist coming close to imitating Reser’s. This cannot be coincidental as McEnelly’s version was recorded barely a month after the Reser version. But it is wonderful and fascinating to hear this rendition as well.

Although about half the album sounds like a very peppy early 1920s dance band, starting with “What Are We Waiting For?”, “Sleep Baby Sleep,” and “Jo-Anne” (despite hearing a fair bit of the banjo in the latter) one begins to notice a gradual difference in the overall sound and temperament of the band. It becomes less of a “hot dance band” and moves closer towards the legato “sweeter” sound of the swing era. There are gradually fewer staccato sounds overall and the arrangements have more legato notes in the bass.

This transformation to the newer 1930s sound is almost complete in “Take your Tomorrow.” Even though the playing and arrangement is still pretty bouncy, it clearly displays a more 1930s “arranged” sound, with the trumpets quietly accompanying the singers at one point. Despite this, the playing continues to be very energetic and clean.

While I am not a big fan of Frankie Carle in his later career, I have to say, my goodness, his playing was truly inspired and very “hot” in many of these early recordings. It’s hard for me to believe it is the same musician. I’m also not a big fan of waltzes from the 1920s and 1930s, but the album ends with two waltzes, and both almost sound like a post-1929 orchestra. Of the two, “Raquel,” is probably my favourite, where one initially hears a call and response pattern between the clarinets and vibraphone, followed by muted trumpets for a few bars, followed by clarinets and vibraphone again, followed by an emphatic use of silences at several points. This is very fine arranging and beautiful playing, indeed.

Wright uses the Johnson & Shirley “American Dance Bands on Record and Film 1915 – 1942” discography (which is most certainly the best one available for American dance bands) to give greater depth to his liner notes. However, even those two erudite and scholarly authors don’t always shine a perfect light on the personnel, mostly giving us a “nucleus” of performers. The only musicians mentioned whom I know are the aforementioned Carle, and banjoist Louis Publicover. Wright makes great connections between the songs, the band personnel, and the general history of the music in his beautifully illustrated and exceptionally researched booklet.

For anyone interested in Dance Band music from the 1920s, this is an essential item, quite possibly unprecedented, from Executive producer Bryan Wright, who is the collector of the original recordings, did the transfers and digital mastering, and writer of an eloquent and beautiful accompanying booklet. This album is truly impressive in all respects.

Recommended without reservation.

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Christian Mann

Charming to listen to.

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Ian Baer
Very appealing album

This is a fun packed album with tuneful songs which reminded me of the background music used in the Laurel
and Hardy movies.

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Livio Curzola
Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra

A great reproduction of recordings from another time. I would love to hear more of such recordings.

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Dave Wentworth
Excellent Band !!

The sound recording on this CD is excellent.
This Orchestra has an excellent sound !!
The music is lively and ‘upbeat’. I love the sound of a Big Band !! This Orchestra was active when music was ‘music’ !! If you like the music of this era, this CD is a winner !!

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